Of all the Bruce Lee knockoffs, even to this day, nobody did it as well as Sammo. Other Lee knockoffs were nudged by studios looking to make a quick buck, sometimes by fooling an unsuspecting audience, but Sammo did it as a flex. #enterthefatdragon #fatdragon #BruceLee #sammohung https://twitter.com/Dragons4EverPod/status/1283406597662875648

When Sammo flexed, he flexed hard. He hired pro kickboxer Billy Chow for Eastern Condors and went toe to toe with him using Chow's kickboxing style many times. You could do a compilation vid just of Sammo vs. Chow fights.

But Sammo, being a proper daai goh (big brother) had Chow as co-star in Paper Marriage. Even though Alfred Cheung the movie, Chow was a new player in the market and it was most likely Sammo who vouched for him for the role.

Here's Billy Chow's legitimacy in a kickboxing match. At the beginning it says he's from Edmonton, where they shot Paper Marriage. There might have been some tax advantages for casting him as a local. Listen to the commentary, pretty fun. Whole fight is on YT.

Sammo flexed against Dick Wei too, an army vet who taught Taekwondo. Wei was tough as hell, so Sammo gave him a drop kick to the back without warning in Project A. This probably hurt a lot. (Also note Jackie, who directed, holds the shot until he finishes HIS fall!)

Then Sammo hired Dick Wei for almost everything. Winners and Sinners, Owl vs. Bumbo, My Lucky Stars, Twinkle, Eastern Condors, Dragons Forever, and Paper Marriage, where they have a good fight in a house. Also, Wei takes his own wreck at the end, which doesn't go well.

Sammo epitomizes the daai goh. He finds the best the market can offer, hires them, beats them up at their own game, and then keeps hiring them and making them look better and better. That's how he was brought up with his brothers in Opera school.

In Enter the Fat Dragon, Sammo wasn't replacing Bruce Lee. He made Bruce Lee's image better. By showing that even someone like HIM could do it, a major knock against the other Bruce ripoffs who couldn't compare. And it's a signal to us as the audience that we could do it too.